EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt will play the female lead in Promised Land, the Focus Features/Participant Media film that Gus Van Sant will direct with Matt Damon and John Krasinski starring. Damon and Krasinski wrote the script. The film, which got a first draft from Dave Eggers when its title was Gold Mist, is a Capraesque tale in which Damon and Krasinski play rival corporate executives. Damon plays a sales executive who arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question. Chris Moore is producing.

DeWitt starred with Emily Blunt in Your Sister’s Sister, which gets released in June, and Neighborhood Watch, which will be released in July. She’s repped by ICM and Troy Nankin.